[mythtv-users] LED Recording feature

Shawn Asmussen asmussen at cox.net
Fri Feb 20 17:45:44 EST 2004


If you're interested in doing something like that you might find this
information useful:

http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/parallel_output.html


Malcolm said:
> I think it would be very nice to wire an LED to an unused port on the myth
> box and have it light up when it's recoding.  Right now just looking at
> the box you have to guess what's going on.  Is it recording?  Is it
> sitting there doing nothing?
>
> At first I thought about the serial port but lots of micro-atx and
> mini-itx boards only have one serial port and a lot of users are already
> using it for an IR receiver.
>
> So what about the parrellal port? I doubt there's to many people with
> printers on their Myth boxes.
>
> If someone knows how is there a way to hook up an LED to two of the pins
> on the parrellal port and make Myth Scheduler trigger it when it's
> recording?
>
> What do you guys think?
> Malcolm
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Shawn Asmussen


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